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Google appears to be testing categories in its search results, according to reports in a webmaster forum, dividing results under headings like…
Regular viewers of the show “House” will know that the title character’s support staff has (supposedly) left; previews for the new season have shown the brilliant doctor discussing diagnoses with a janitor. But if the fictional character knew about a network called Sermo, he’d be able to find all the expert opinions he could want.
Historically, in the brick-and-mortar world, we've had courts to settle disputes. Online, there are terms of service agreements and invisible judges determining, usually at the behest of the loudest and largest mob, who is guilty of crossing the line between conscious protest and hate speech.
Searchles, a social search platform has added to its video indexing to display embeds from video sites Metacafe, Liveleak, Veoh and CollegeHumor.
A key aspect of Web 2.0 is letting users create or enhance a site’s content. This sounds great, but in practice can be hard to achieve. The Web is littered with dead forums, unreviewed products, spammed-out wikis, and other failed attempts to build user-created sites.
Every time we mention the Facebook hype, we’re obliged to point out that MySpace is still used by far more people. But MySpace’s margin of victory is slipping, and new data from Compete indicates that its pageviews decreased by 20 percent between July and August.
